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| | Some Thoughts on the Popularity and Reception of Sherlock Holmes |
 | | For those early readers the doctor was reassuringly like themselves, honest, likeable and determined, conventional enought to be surprised and a little shocked by new ideas, yet always ready for adventure, and prepared to do what seemed to him extraordinary and even ridiculous things in obedience to the commands of his genius friend. |
 | | In his interesting book, Seven Types of Adventure Tale: An Etiology of a Major Genre, Martin Green defines, discusses, demonstrates by example, and defends what he contends are the basic varieties of the adventure genre. |
 | | Yet another appeal of the stories was, of course, the vicarious adventure offered by the tales. |
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